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Crested agouti

Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricognathi
Family : Dasyproctidae
Species : Dasyprocta cristata

 

The Crested agouti is listed as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the crested agouti

One of eleven species of Agouti, Dasyprocta cristata is also called the Crested Agouti. (Full text)

1. Dasyprocta, genus Dasyprocta -- (type genus of the Dasyproctidae: agoutis)
Dasyprocta
genus Dasyprocta
(Source WordNet)